Fastening devices for wearing apparel



Dec. 20, 1960 H. H. WOOD FASTENING DEVICES FOR WEARING APPAREL Filed June 17, 1957 Wood, INVENTOR BY JMG W ATTORNEYS United States Patent 2,964,817 FASTENING DEVICES FOR WEARING APPAREL Herbert Howard Wood, Birmingham, England, assignor to Thomas Walker Limited, Birmingham, England, a British company Filed June 17, 1957, Ser. No. 665,939

2 Claims. (Cl. 24-227) This invention relates to fastening devices for connecting together overlapping edge or end portions of articles of wearing apparel, and especially for detachably connecting the ends of a trouser waistband, said devices being of the kind comprising a hook-like member'or tongue part for securing to the one part of the garment and being detachably engageable with a staple, bridge-part, loop or like member on another part of the garment. The object of the present invention is to provide an improved fastening device which is simple in construction, which can be easily and quickly connected and disconnected, which is of shallow thickness so as not to be detrimental to the appearance of the garment to which it is attached, and which is not liable to be easily crushed while the garment is being pressed, laundered or otherwise treated.

According to the invention, a fastening device of the kind referred to for wearing apparel consists of a flat, substantially rectangular base-plate carrying rearwardlyextending attachment prongs and adapted to be attached to the front face of the material, and a fiat front tongue integrally joined to one longitudinal edge of the base plate by a stepped portion so as to lie in a plane parallel to said base-plate but forwardly spaced therefrom; said tongue constituting the hook-like part adapted for detachable engagement with a staple, bridge, loop or the like. Conveniently the fastening device consists of a vertical bar the edges of which carry integral attachment prongs, having a horizontal tongue which is forwardly cranked, or stepped, at its junction with the vertical bar, so as to lie in a plane parallel to but set forward from the general plane of the vertical bar.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a fastening device constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the fastening device of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section on line III-III of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a horizontal section showing the fastener attached by means of a back-plate and engaged with a loop member as when in use on a trousers waistband.

Figure 5 is a rear perspective view of a modification.

Referring to Figures 1 to 4 of the drawing, the fastening device is made from sheet metal and consists of a main vertical bar 12 of rectangular shape forming a base which carries a tongue 16 integrally joined to the middle portion of one vertical edge so as to give a T-shaped configuration to the device. At its junction or root portion 13 the tongue 16 is cranked or stepped forwardly so as to extend horizontally in a plane spaced from but parallel to the plane of the base 12. Rearwardly extending attachment prongs 14, also integral with the base 12, are provided adjacent the upper and lower edges of the tongue 16, and likewise, three rearwardly-extending attachment prongs 15 are provided on the other vertical edge of the base 12 remote from the tongue 16.

The device is attached to one end of the waistband by passing the prongs 14 and 15 through the material 17 and through openings provided in a back-plate 18, the prongs being bent over or clenched on to the face of the said plate, as shown in Figure 4. The tongue 16 thus stands away from the surface of the material 17, although parallel therewith and, in combination with said back plate 18, it constitutes a hook-like part adapted to be engaged with a staple, bridge-piece, loop or like member 19 attached by clenched prongs, or in any other manner, to the other end of the waistband 17a.

In the modification shown in Figure 5, the fastening device comprises a base-plate 20 provided with two rearwardly-extending prongs 21 along one of its longitudinal edges and, at the opposite edge, is an integral tongue 22 cranked at its junction 23 with the base-plate. The tongue 22 is of the same width as the base-plate 20 and has in it an aperture 24 extending into the cranked part 23, and a third prong 25 which is passed from out of the aperture 24 is bent rearwardly from the middle of the edge of the base-plate Which carries the tongue 22.

I claim:

1. A sheet-metal fastening device for attachment to the face of one of two overlapping portions of wearing apparel and for use with a complementary staple-like part, said device comprising a flat substantially rectangular base plate having two parallel wider longitudinal edges and two parallel narrow edges and adapted to be attached to the face of the material, a plurality of attachment prongs extending perpendicularly to the plane of said base plate, said attachment prongs being integral with the base plate and disposed along the longitudinal edges thereof, a flat front tongue, said prongs extending in planes perpendicular to the direction in which said front tongue extends, and a stepped portion integrally joining said tongue to one longitudinal edge of the base plate, said tongue lying in a plane parallel to said base plate and extending from said base plate on the opposite side of said base plate from said prongs and in a direction away from the base plate, whereby said tongue constitutes a hook-like part extending parallel to said base plate to form a space open on three sides and suited for engagement with the complementary staple-like part on the other of the two overlapping portions of the wearing larger than the length of the base plate measured in the same direction.

2. A sheet-metal fastening device for attachment to the face of one of two overlapping portions of wearing apparel and for use with a complementary staple-like part, said device comprising a flat substantially rectangular base plate of greater length than width and adapted to be attached to the face of the material, a plurality of attachment prongs extending perpendicularly to the plane of said base plate, said attachment prongs being integral with said base plate and carried by the longitudinal edges of the base plate, a Hat front tongue of less width than the length of the base plate, said prongs being disposed in planes perpendicular to the direction in which said front tongue extends, and a stepped portion integrally joining said tongue to the middle portion of one longitudinal edge of the base plate, said tongue lying in a plane parallel to said base plate and being spaced from said base plate on the opposite side of said base plate from said prongs and extending in a direction away from the base to give a general T-shaped configuration to the device, whereby said tongue constitutes a hook-like part extending parallel to said base plate to form a space open on three sides and suited for engagement with the complementary staple-like part on the other of the two over lapping portions of wearing apparel the length of the References Citedin the. file of this patent,

UNITED STATES PATENTS Patterson Apr. 12,1910 Mays Aug, 3,v 1915 4 Rundus Feb. 19, 1918 Doty July 23, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain Apr. 5, 1938 Great Britain Aug. 22, 1956 France Mar. 24, 1954 France- June 23, 1954 

